The writers of Succession discuss the Kendall and Logan dynamic/hug in the last scene of “No One is Ever Missing.” After showing the scene at the panel, the writers walk through (a) the line between comedy and drama/tragedy and (b) Logan’s thoughts and motivations underpinning that scene. (x)
While the whole clip is worth a watch or listen, the last minute, where Jesse Armstrong and Lucy Prebble describe Logan’s thoughts/emotions while talking to Kendall, is transcribed below:
Jesse Armstrong: I think there’s loads of tenderness. I think it’s really mixed up with a fucked-up version of just enjoying that power. Like the whole – he’s been very destabilized in that episode where there’s a bear hug letter and the business feels under threat. And to feel another clunk of relief of like “oh this is how it’s meant to feel” with his supplicant son.
Lucy Prebble: And being somewhat of a good father in that moment, and yet it’s ironic because what he’s enjoying about it, exactly as Jesse’s saying, is the patriarchal sense of being in control again and him being a little boy that he needs to save. So it’s toxic and unpleasant at the same time as he is protecting his son from bad consequences cause of something he’s done so it’s actually quite ideal for Logan.
Additional writing on this to follow, but I also wanted to mention that the above may be interesting to consider in connection with “Window Rumination,” a backstory piece written by Jesse that lays out a memory of six-year-old Kendall visiting Waystar, getting lost, and being saved by his father’s embrace. The same kind of embrace that almost thirty years later is both a comfort and a confirmation of the terrible force of Logan’s love. (x)
Okay but Dongfang Qingcang putting on his whole bad ominous boy little show when he's taking Xiao Lanhua to see his perfect recreation of arbiter hall yet he still can't help but to have the tiniest TINIEST self satisfied smile when he reveals it to her because he really did try so hard to make it a perfect replica so she'd feel more at home and happy again and yeah it immediately all goes to hell 5 minutes later but God if it wasn't cute for that second
Dad Tony Khan with his girlfriend Jourdan Miller is taking the kids Darby Allin and Orange Cassidy to the Fulham match while talking to Jesse Armstrong (creator of Succession).
No its alright (lying) ((thinking about how Gar and Laur live together and literally couldnt avoid eachother after the kiss at the play and how if Jess wasnt a fujoshi they actually wouldve had to work through their feelings and have a conversation))
absolutely adore when people call jess selfish and horrible when he was literally just a kid. he was a child who went his whole life without any financial stability and as a result became a workaholic so that he knew he always had a monetary safety net. he was a child who was abandoned by his father and neglected by his mother, and who was clearly abused in several ways (by liz, by her boyfriends, by his stepfathers). he was a child who was never taught to communicate his feelings. he was a child who was told by his mother and by other authority figures that he was worthless, that he would never amount to anything, that he shouldn’t even try because he’d just end up failing. and despite all of that he tried anyway—for rory, because he loved her. and eventually for himself, because he realized he had worth.
ocd sucks for a number of reasons but it's objectively at its stupidest when the inside of my brain just sounds like a twitter argument between two people who haven't been outside in a month
something that I always get annoyed about replaying MCSM s2 is the fact that you HAVE to take Xara with you.
Guys.. there's a map of the maze in the warden's office with the way to the underneath marked. You don't NEED Xara to find it for you, just take the map. Nurm's a cartographer so it's not like reading it would be an issue. And with Petra and Jack on the team im sure someone would get frustrated and punch through the glass on the stairway thingy and go "oh shit there's stairs"
The portal is a little bit of an issue, sure, but didn't Binta know Fred personally? Maybe she would know how to fix it. Idk. The choice between silly llama and (arguably) the best character in the game is too difficult 🫤🫤